Did Obama break all the fund raising records? Yes. Did he take any precautions against fraudulent donations, like taking money from overseas or fraudulent credit cards? No. Obama did not require donors to prove themselves like everyone else was doing, even allowing Donald Duck to make online donations. The name and address was not being verified to the credit card. The end result is the degradation of the process, so that from now on every candidate will follow the example. So while it is great to see a candidate use technology for best effect, it wasn't the whole story, and you got to wonder how much it helped the CR.